Roleplaying music: “Dead Space”
Dead Space is a SF-horror-themed third person shooter for the PC and several gaming consoles. I had the opportunity to play the game for…
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D&D Character Builder is now in Open Beta
DDI Non-subscribers rejoice! Wizards of the Coast has decided to make the D&D Character Builder beta version available to non-subscribers too. You can get…
Boardgames and Roleplaying
There are quite a few boardgames or miniature skirmish games with elaborate background stories that almost beg to turned into a roleplaying game. In…
Powerless player
There are situation in roleplaying game sessions when players are totally powerless because their characters are unable to act because they are incapacitated, separated…
Roleplaying music: Elyrion Soundtrack
Elyrion is an upcoming german steampunk fantasy roleplaying game. It will be released in the coming days, probably on SPIEL ’08 in Essen. There…
Every GM needs this!
Every GM should play this when he leaves the game table to go to the bathroom or get some more soft-drinks and snacks from…
Roleplaying music: “Age of Conan – Hyborian Adventures”
When I posted my first “Roleplaying music” article, fellow blogger Crom recommended the soundtrack of “Age of Conan – Hyborian Adventures” to me. So,…
More prop generators!
In my last post I wrote about the Newspaper Clipping Generator, but there are a lot of generators available on the internet that can…
Newspaper Clippings
I always love to use props and one of my favorite prop are newspaper clippings. Usually I used a word processor like Word or…
Roleplaying music – “The Witcher”
Recently CDProjekt has released the Enhanced Edition of its roleplaying game “The Witcher”. The game uses a heavily modified Neverwinter Nights engine and it’s…
Roleplaying music – “Thief – Deadly Shadows”
When “Thief – Deadly Shadows” (aka Thief III) was released, Ion Storm also made the games’ soundtrack available for download. The games’ score consist…
GM Advice: How to handle “GM’s block”
GM’s block is a problem you’ve probably experienced yourself in the past. It is the inability to run or prepare roleplaying sessions due to…
Roleplaying music – Bioshock
The award-winning computer game Bioshock takes place in an underwater city called Rapture, where the dream of scientists and artists turned into nightmare. The…
Roleplaying music – Five essential soundtrack albums
In my column “Roleplaying music” I want to write about the usage of music in tabletop roleplaying. If you start using music in your…
Canned Monstrosities
While checking some websites this morning I stumbled upon some great tutorials for Halloween props. These props could make excellent props for use at…
Roleplaying music – “WoW: Taverns of Azeroth”
Recently Blizzard Entertainment has released a new game soundtrack album over Apple’s iTunes Store: “World of Warcraft: Taverns of Azeroth” composed by David Arkenstone,…
Horror Improved!
Running a horror campaign is very hard work. Imagine a scene where the players should be in horror, frightened, excited and then someone tells…
Music for the adventure in your mind
I am pretty sure that a lot of GMs are using music to set the mood during their gaming sessions. I prefer epic soundtracks…
iPhone app “Mach Dice”
Since the AppStore opened its doors, hundreds of applications where released for the iPhone and the iPod touch. There are a lot of dice…
TenFootWiki 2.0 – the ten foot pole for GMs
When planning a new campaign or even a whole new setting a wiki can really come in handy. But usually you need a web…